Alex Zanardi Quotes

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

If I ever won the Indy 500, I can tell you that I wouldn't worry about my engine, that's for sure.

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the team principals should be more prominent.

It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.

It's easy to get into the competition of F1, and you are never going to win every race even though you want to. So when you're not winning, you want to win, so you're not that happy. But you have to look at the big perspective, and I am very fortunate to be one of 22 in the world to do this.

F1 has been my dream since I was a kid. I am here. That feeling of having achieved that and a step in my life's dream of winning the championship - there is no way I wouldn't work extremely hard - I put the time in.

My goal has always been to be known as a racer who is diverse, someone who can go to any venue and any racetrack anywhere and compete for a win.

Maybe I am the driver who got the most close to the championship in history.

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

I've learned a tremendous amount. I've gained a lot of experience competing at the highest level with the best drivers in the world in F1.

I just want to win a world title - that's the main objective and whether it happens at Windsor or whether it happens in America it doesn't matter.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

I think we're the best road racing show in town.

Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better show for the fans.

I believe I have earned my shot in F1. I have won F3, and we all know F3 is a very high level.

The day I do get a championship-winning car, I will run with it. I will capitalise on every part of that beautiful thing.

I think I've done a fair bit of my talking on the track over the course of the years, leading up to Formula One and Formula One.

I have fans rooting for me, all the other drivers in the midfield have fans rooting for them, and they never get to see that driver fighting for wins. Of course it would be a lot better if you had a broader range of drivers who were in the fight for wins.

We are in F1 and we want to fight against the best.

My ambition is to one day be in Formula 1 and hopefully become world champion.

Being under the lights makes any race track that much better.